A contrastive analysis of two languages requires detailed grammatical descriptions on a solid theoretical basis. Accurate comparative descriptions of German and in Turkish are rather rare. One reason for this might be th

A contrastive analysis of two languages requires detailed grammatical descriptions on a solid theoretical basis. Accurate comparative descriptions of German and in Turkish are rather rare. One reason for this might be that the structures of Turkish and German are only to a certain extend comparable with each other. Although there is a semantic category reflexivum in both languages, in many cases it is not possible to point out its syntactic and semantic realizations. The following article aims at explaining this problem by means of a comparison of reflexive constructions in German and Turkish.